Chapter Twenty-Five: The Seer Overheard
In chapter twenty-five of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Harry finds out that Snape indirectly killed his parents, Hermione almost solves the mystery of the Half Blood Prince, and Dumbledore tells Harry to sit down and STFU.
(Please be advised that this is a reread and I will be discussing book and movie spoilers.)
Harry and Ginny are snogging all over the place but at least we don’t have to hear about it as much as LavLav and WonWon. Hermione brings up the Half Blood Prince again, and the possibility that it could be a girl named Eileen Prince. She’s not far off, but for some reason Harry’s decided to scoff at this theory. Since, y’know, Hermione is often wrong. /sarcasm (…okay she is wrong this whole book about Malfoy.)
HPotz is summoned to a meeting with Dumbledore and meets Trelawney, (I weirdly enjoy the Trelawney/Harry interactions more that she’s no longer his teacher) who drops the alarming information that Snape was the one who overheard her prophecy and ran and tattled to Voldemort about killing the Potters. Not that ole Trelawney grasps the finer details, but our boy Harry does and he’s PISSED. I, for one, am happy for a return of the Angry!Harry from last book. This one’s too busy petting his Chest Monster and stalking Malfoy for my taste. Dumbledore handles Harry’s rage very badly and is like “well Harry all evidence to the contrary but Snape’s biggest regret was turning in your dad, the guy he clearly still hates to this day to Voldemort to be murdered I swear.” Errr…ADumbs, I know why you’d attempt this route, but since you can’t tell the full truth Harry cannot possibly believe this foolery.
Even worse, Dumbles gets mad at Harry when Harry’s like “c’mon Dumbles Snape would piss on my dad’s grave if he could and also Malfoy’s really, really obviously about to do something terrible tonight.” Dumbledore what is wrong with you? Harry has every right to be suspicious of both of these dudes and you shutting him down with “because I say so and put some respect on my name BITCH” is really a bad idea. You’re lucky Capslock!Harry has been taken over by the CHEST MONSTER or else more of your stuff would be getting smashed right now.
Somehow our dudes calm down and then basically have this convo:
DUMBLEDORE: Now, Harry: I must ask you to give me your word that no matter what happens, you will do as I say. If I must cut my hand instead of yours, if you have to feed me poison until I gibber and scream for death, if I forget who I am and what the hell we’re even doing here–you must do as I say. Except for the part where I ask you to actually kill me. You can probably skip that.
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Harry passes along his lucky juice to GrangWeaz and then he’s off to lurk about some caves with Dumbledore like they’re Gollum or something.
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Why is Harry adamant that the Half Blood Prince is male?
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